Goodnight Train Halloween (Goodnight Train)

by June Sobel (Author) Laura Huliska-Beith (Illustrator)

Goodnight Train Halloween (Goodnight Train)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Goodnight Train

The perfect gift for the littlest trick-or-treater! The Goodnight Train takes a magical Halloween ride to bedtime in this sturdy board book with peek-a-boo pages and glitter cover. A novelty companion to The Goodnight Train, The Goodnight Train Rolls On!, and Santa and the Goodnight Train.

Trick or Treat! Trick or Treat!

Whoooo! Whoooo!

It's Halloween night and the Goodnight Train is set to choo choo BOO! See costumed sheep, find glowing jack-o-lanterns, and fill the boxcar with candy freight before rolling into the station for bedtime. Surprises await through seek-and-find holes in every durable page of this board book with a shaped cover.

A treat for train fans that's sure to lull sugar-filled revelers into sweet dreams.

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All aboard for a spooktacularly sleepy ride!

School Library Journal

PreS--Children and friendly animals have a fun adventure riding a train in sleeper bed cars on Halloween night. The story opens with a pig on the caboose with a megaphone. "It's Halloween! Full moon's aglow. The Goodnight Train is set to go." There is also a bat bringing a blanket to a child dressed as a bumblebee. By the smiles on their faces, both human and Halloween creatures, it is abundantly clear that it's a good time for all on this trip. The train travels through a forest with smiling ghosts and spiders, makes its way through a candy cane storm with a smiling mummy, and has other adventures. Words and art work well together and evoke a sense of excitement about this holiday. In a non-scary way, children learn about ghosts, bats, witches, and other Halloween traditions. There is also the right amount of text to capture young children's attention, without providing too much information for the audience. This perfect bedtime title closes by saying, "Little sleepers start to yawn. The orange moon is almost gone. Halloween's more fun than fright. Now it's time to say good night." This creative book will be popular with parents and caregivers who want to introduce the holiday to younger children. VERDICT Recommended for libraries as a fresh addition to holiday book collections.--Robin Sofge

Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780358626077
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
July 19, 2022
Series
Goodnight Train
BISAC categories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV010000 - Juvenile Fiction | Bedtime & Dreams
JUV017030 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Halloween
JUV009110 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Sounds
JUV041050 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Railroads & Trains
JUV070000 - Juvenile Fiction | Poetry (see also Stories in Verse)
Library of Congress categories
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